Lighting for Concept Artists and Illustrators

There are five principles of lighting that every artist should understand: direction, proximity, relative intensity, relative color, and diffusion. Applying each of these principles effectively can help create a mood or tell a story. James Gurney, author of the Amazon bestseller “Color and Light” takes you through his explorations of lighting via his plein-air paintings in gouache and oil and his experiments with ‘concepting from life.’